Zachowujcych

Zachowujcych is a Polish linguistic form that commonly appears as a non-diacritic or nonstandard variant of the standard genitive plural of the present active participle zachowujący, which comes from the verb zachowywać. In standard orthography, the form is zachowujących and is used as an adjective-like participle to describe a noun in a genitive plural context. The meaning conveyed is “those who behave” or “those who preserve,” depending on the verb sense in the sentence.

In usage, present active participles in Polish function as adjectives and agree with the noun they modify for gender, number, and case. The genitive plural zachowujących is used to refer to a group of subjects performing the action described by the verb. For example, in a clause such as grupa osób zachowujących ostrożność, the phrase identifies the group as those who exercise caution. Such a construction is common in descriptive writing, legal texts, and formal reports where attributes of groups are specified.

Orthography and variants: while zachowujących is the standard form, texts that omit diacritics or reflect informal or OCR-derived spellings may render it as zachowujcych. The underlying morphological relation remains the same, but readers are expected to recognize that zachowujcych is a variant or misspelling of zachowujących. Linguists and natural language processing tools typically treat both as referring to the same participial form, with the canonical spelling preferred in edited language.

See also: Polish grammar, participles, diacritics in Polish, inflected adjectives.